History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future."
"We cannot know where we're going until we know where we've been."
What is HISTORY? Definitions: what has happened: the past events of a period in time or in the life or development of a people, an institution, or a place study of past events: the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events record of events: a chronological account of past events of a period or in the life or development of a people, an institution, or a place
Random US History FactsJimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital. During the Civil War, more soldiers died of disease than they did from gunshots and fighting.
Harry S. Truman was the only president in this century who didn't have a college education.
American Indians were not made citizens of the U.S. until congress acted in 1924. Martin Van Buren was the first president born in America after it declared its independence from England. So, he was actually the first president born in the United States, the country.
8th Grade U.S. History
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"We cannot know where we're going until we know where we've been."
What is HISTORY? Definitions:
what has happened: the past events of a period in time or in the life or development of a people, an institution, or a place
study of past events: the branch of knowledge that records and analyzes past events
record of events: a chronological account of past events of a period or in the life or development of a people, an institution, or a place
Random US History FactsJimmy Carter was the first president born in a hospital.
During the Civil War, more soldiers died of disease than they did from
gunshots and fighting.
Harry S. Truman was the only president in this century who didn't have a
college education.
American Indians were not made citizens of the U.S.
until congress acted in 1924.
Martin Van Buren was the first president born in America after
it declared its independence from England. So, he was actually the first
president born in the United States, the country.